Sid Ali Kouiret (Arabic: سيد علي كويرات‎) is an Algerian actor, born January 3, 1933 in Algiers, Algeria and died April 5, 2015 in the same city. Sid Ali Kouiret had a difficult childhood; his father, a taxi driver, often came home drunk and was violent with his mother.

One day, the kid, exasperated, takes a knife and sticks it in his father's back. He thus found himself in the streets of Algiers, left school, lived on petty thefts, and, from the age of 9, took on odd jobs as a shoeshine boy, working for the port fishermen. At 17, he was a pimp at the port, and as he liked to swim, to go to the Algiers mole, he had to cross Rue de la Marine.